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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (22)
  
  Szulc C. (6)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (4)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (4)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (4)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Maciejowski Adolf; 09.02.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Nowiński (3)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Garbarczyk Andrzej (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Izbicki Michał; 05.02.1919, Janów (2)
  
  Jankowska Weronika; 1912? (2)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (2)
  
  Jędrusiak Michalina, 29.09.1906, Kraków (2)
  
  Kadłubowski Romuald; 27.02.1896, Słucz (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (2)
  
  Koczanowicz Stanisław; 05.05.1921, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (2)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kulesza Stanisław; 07.03.1907, Ponikiew Mała (2)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (2)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (2)
  
  Lerczak Bolesław, 02.08.1912 (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (2)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Mikoda Bolesław; 14.05.1925, Bielsk (2)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (2)
  
  Misztal Konstanty; 28.01.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (2)
  
  Nadrykowski Józef; 1893? (2)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (2)
  
  Niedojadło Eugeniusz; 21.11.1919, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (2)
  
  Pająk Franciszek (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Paudyn Tadeusz; 16.12.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 10.02.1890 (2)
  
  Podgórski Jan; 17.12.1901, Kraków (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (2)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (2)
  
  Prawer Seweryn; 1903? (2)
  
  Prząda Marian; 12.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Rablin Andrzej; 01.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Ratajczak Ignacy; 14.07.1903 (2)
  
  Reyman Jan; 21.10.1902, Kraków (2)
  
  Roszkowska Halina; 24.02.1911, Lublin (2)
  
  Rubach Marian; 14.06.1893 (2)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (261)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (235)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (222)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (126)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (114)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (93)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (89)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (80)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (72)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (68)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (52)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (44)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (44)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (44)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (42)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (39)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (35)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (34)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (29)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (27)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (25)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (24)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (23)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (19)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (17)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (17)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (16)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (16)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (16)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (15)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (14)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (13)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (13)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (13)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (13)
  
  In exile – Siberia (12)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (12)
  
  Radom – daily terror (11)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (11)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (11)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (10)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (9)
  
  In exile – Ural (9)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (9)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (9)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (8)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (8)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (8)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  The persecuted church (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (7)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (7)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (7)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (7)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (6)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (6)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (6)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (6)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (5)
  
  Mariupol Siege (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (5)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (5)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (4)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (4)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (4)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (4)
  
  Russian occupation – Kharkiv Oblast (4)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (4)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (3)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (3)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (3)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (3)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (3)
  
  The city condemned to death (3)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (3)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (3)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Budy (2)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (362)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (303)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (292)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (248)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (218)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (198)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (184)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (181)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (147)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (108)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (96)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (92)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (91)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (89)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (87)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (85)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (85)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (81)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (78)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (74)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (72)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (62)
  
  KL Majdanek (60)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (60)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (60)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (55)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (55)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (55)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (54)
  
  Warsaw (52)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (51)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (49)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (46)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (46)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (45)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (44)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (44)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (41)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (40)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (40)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (40)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (40)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (40)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (39)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (38)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (37)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (35)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (35)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (34)
  
  KL Plaszow (34)
  
  Bochnia, train station (33)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (33)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (31)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (31)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (30)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (30)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (30)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (29)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (29)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (29)
  
  Bydgoszcz (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (27)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (27)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (27)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (27)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (26)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (26)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (26)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (26)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (25)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (25)
  
  Kraków (25)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (25)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (25)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (25)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (24)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (24)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (23)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (23)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (23)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (22)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (22)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (22)
  
  Lublin (21)
  
  Przemyśl (21)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (20)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (20)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (20)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (20)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (20)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (20)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (20)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (19)
Oblast
- Zaporizhia (10)
  
  Donetsk (8)
  
  Kharkiv (6)
  
  Kherson (6)
  
  Luhansk (5)
  
  Kyiv (4)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (2)
  
  Sumy (1)
Raion
- Mariupol (5)
  
  Vasylivka (5)
  
  Bucha (3)
  
  Kherson (3)
  
  Berdyansk (2)
  
  Kharkiv (2)
  
  Kramatorsk (2)
  
  Severodonetsk (2)
  
  Svatove (2)
  
  Сhuhuiv (2)
  
  Beryslav (1)
  
  Donetsk (1)
  
  Izium (1)
  
  Kakhovka (1)
  
  Kiev (1)
  
  Kupyansk (1)
  
  Kyiv (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Melitopol (1)
  
  Polohy (1)
  
  Skadovsk (1)
  
  Zaporizhia (1)
Victims
- The Poles (2065)
  
  Civilians (1931)
  
  The Civilian Population (1803)
  
  Women (875)
  
  The Jews (835)
  
  The Inteligentsia (678)
  
  The sick (547)
  
  Children (530)
  
  The Sick (523)
  
  Russians/Soviets (482)
  
  The Russians (424)
  
  Prisoners of War (400)
  
  Ukrainians (365)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (276)
  
  The elderly (257)
  
  The Elderly (237)
  
  Policemen (191)
  
  Deportees (187)
  
  Belarusians (151)
  
  The Church (128)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (120)
  
  Germans (110)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (96)
  
  Hungarians (92)
  
  Internees (89)
  
  Czechs (86)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (81)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (77)
  
  The French (69)
  
  Lithuanians (65)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (61)
  
  Border Guard (56)
  
  Landowners (54)
  
  Slovaks (53)
  
  Belgians (48)
  
  The Dutch (45)
  
  Border Protection Corps (43)
  
  Greeks (41)
  
  The Disabled (40)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (37)
  
  The Communists (34)
  
  Latvians (28)
  
  Estonians (20)
  
  Romanians (18)
  
  Italians (17)
  
  Americans (12)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  The British (11)
  
  Prison Guard (6)
  
  Finns (5)
  
  the Chinese (4)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Scouts (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (690)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (311)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (262)
  
  Collaboration (196)
  
  Denunciation (131)
  
  Red Army (128)
  
  Military Police (124)
  
  Soviet Militia (101)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (88)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (83)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (66)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (66)
  
  Lithuanians (47)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (43)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (39)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (37)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (20)
  
  Collaborators (17)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (14)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (12)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (12)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (11)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (10)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (10)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
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  Waffen-SS (4)
  
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  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (2)
  
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  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Brutal interrogation/Tortures (2193)
  
  Beating (1677)
  
  Forced labor (1468)
  
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  Judicial crime (411)
  
  Punishment cell (380)
  
  Gas chambers (341)
  
  Cattle wagons (324)
  
  Cremation of corpses (303)
  
  Cremation (296)
  
  Hanging (212)
  
  Mass graves (137)
  
  Medical experiments (132)
  
  Economic exploitation (128)
  
  Round-up (104)
  
  "Dosing" (103)
  
  Disarmament (103)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (94)
  
  Burning people alive (79)
  
  Displacement (77)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (76)
  
  Racial policy (73)
  
  Desacration of corpses (67)
  
  Expulsion (67)
  
  Roads of death (66)
  
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  Armored weapons (47)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (41)
  
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  The liquidation of ghetto (38)
  
  Artillery shelling (26)
  
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  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (20)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (19)
  
  Germanization (17)
  
  Humanitarian catastrophe (17)
  
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  Human shields (13)
  
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  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (9)
  
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Place
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Content
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  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (134)
  
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  Polish culture in exile (121)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (98)
  
  Obliterating the traces (90)
  
  First deportation (87)
  
  obliterating the traces (86)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (59)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (58)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (57)
  
  Civil resistance (55)
  
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  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (42)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (39)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (39)
  
  Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (39)
  
  Aktion Zamość (35)
  
  Rescue of Jews (34)
  
  Russian occupation/Occupation terror (33)
  
  Underground media (27)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (24)
  
  Evacuation from war zone/occupied territories (21)
  
  Polish Underground State (19)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (18)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (17)
  
  Third deportation (16)
  
  Underground culture and education (16)
  
  Second deportation (14)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (13)
  
  Judenrat (13)
  
  Fourth deportation (12)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (12)
  
  Central Welfare Council (11)
  
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  Sonderaktion Krakau (7)
  
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  Called by name (5)
  
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  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (5)
  
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  Free City of Danzig (4)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (4)
  
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  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (3)
  
  Wola Massacre (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  Bucha Massacre (2)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
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  Irpin Massacre (1)
  
  Izyum Massacre (1)
  
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  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
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  Supreme National Tribunal (632)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (159)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (93)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (82)
  
  District Court in Radom (49)
  
  Lemkin Center (39)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (23)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (18)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (17)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (15)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (14)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (13)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (12)
  
  District Court in Łomża (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (4)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (3)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (3)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (1)
Medium
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  Image (213)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (1982)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (206)